mahogany flat

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mahogany flat

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From their colour and shape.

noun mahogany flats

  1. UK, obsolete, slang A bedbug. When ready for sea we went up to Greenhithe, that their lordships might inspect us, and then to Portsmouth, to take troops to Cork, a pleasant trip; but the troops left us a legacy of "mahogany flats," with which their beds were so swarming that we never got them under.

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@misc{mahogany_flat_2026,
  title = {mahogany flat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mahogany%20flat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}